TSA and the five finger discount
 

Here is an article about a TSA agent who stole an expensive camera and when he gets caught they find lots more stuff.

TSA agent helped himself to a $47,900 camera (and more!) - Gadling | travel blog | news, stories, deals, and tips. Go there.

Wow - those TSA agents need to be subject to the same humiliating searches as we are both when arriving and leaving work! Maybe that would inject some common sense into the system and prevent idiots like these from stealing.:mad:

The TSA could probably pay for itself and all the upgrades they wanted if they started screening themselves when they leave work!! :eek:

I've said it before and I'll say it again:

The TSA and its "officers" are trash and should be treated as such.

So now we're going to start screening the screeners???
Well, who's going to screen them???
What a retarded bureaucracy!!

Just last night I watched two TSA agents enter the secured aread through the exit (no screening, etc) carrying hand bags and food/beverages. I made a comment under my breath about their liquids as I passed them (I was leaving).

It's their egos and elitism that really gets me. If TSA agents were required to have the same sort of education and quality length of training as military officers or police officers, they would be far more capable and respectable. Unfortunately, that would greatly diminish the pool of candidates.

Though, to the TSA's side, in the early days they did have considerably higher standards for employment, however, they could not get nearly enough qualified applicants under the original standards, mostly due to the pay not being high enough for people with the backgrounds that the TSA desired.

I believe there is a new rule out stating that the TSA doesn't get screened.
A load of bollocks if you ask me.

..Agreed..

The little blue boys do it agen!

I believe they only make about $10 an hr starting out....and they wonder why they keep getting idiots!!. not that long ago I got searched during spring break on my way down to Florida and they opened my bag and the moron started questioning me why I had aviation textbooks in my bag. I told him I was a flight student, so I pulled my license out of my wallet and showed him and he said, "Where did you get that?" I replied "from the FAA" he looked at me puzzled as I zipped up my bag and walked away; I think he was 90% brain dead.

You're being overly generous, spotting him the 10%.

Yeah you are right I was being overly generus!!

$10.00 hires some pretty motivated people, huh? Amazing how the lines can be backed up so far while some (not all) TSA reps are joking around with each other instead of really paying attention to the task at hand. That's why there are regular breaches when the system is tested...

If you think that's bad, check out their website: tsa-screeners.com

I have to bring my lunch with me through security everyday....

Yogurt in the original cup? No good. Empty it into a small tupperware? A-OKAY.

Small can of baked beans? No good. Empty it into a small tupperware? A-OKAY.

Small can of campbells soup? No good. Empty it into a small tupperware? A-OKAY.

And yes, that actually all happened. Simply astounding. TSA: Saving the world, one can of beans at a time.

"Smart ones can get through security with fake boarding passes and all manner of prohibited items—as our correspondent did with ease."
The emperor has new clothes!
The Things He Carried - The Atlantic (November 2008)

I remember someone on this forum saying they froze home made soup over 4 oz. in a tupperware container to get through security haha. :)

This isn't really suprising, and I'm a part 91 pilot that just rides in the back of the airliners often enough.

Yeah! And can you believe that we're paying for this!?

WOW good article. haha too funny.

Sounds like you could drag a hippo through any they would not notice!

They would just think it was one of their own!:rolleyes:

Ahahaha you bring up a very good point! They would be in shock watching you drag one of their own through the check point!:D

No need to drag...just lead with a nice fresh Krispy Kreme!